# Progressive Video Summarization via Multimodal Self-supervised Learning

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02494 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.02494/

## Key facts

- Cited by 21 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 34 of its 49 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 7 Jan 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 34)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.11692/) (2019)
- [ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.0575/) (2014)
- [Going Deeper with Convolutions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.4842/) (2014)
- [ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.11942/) (2019)
- [Unsupervised Learning of Visual Representations by Solving Jigsaw Puzzles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.09246/) (2016)
- [Oscar: Object-Semantics Aligned Pre-training for Vision-Language Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.06165/) (2020)
- [PEGASUS: Pre-training with Extracted Gap-sentences for Abstractive Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.08777/) (2019)
- [VideoBERT: A Joint Model for Video and Language Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.01766/) (2019)
- [Self-supervised Visual Feature Learning with Deep Neural Networks: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.06162/) (2019)
- [VideoCLIP: Contrastive Pre-training for Zero-shot Video-Text Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.14084/) (2021)
- [Look, Listen and Learn](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.08168/) (2017)
- [VATT: Transformers for Multimodal Self-Supervised Learning from Raw Video, Audio and Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.11178/) (2021)
- [Self-Supervised MultiModal Versatile Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.16228/) (2020)
- [ActBERT: Learning Global-Local Video-Text Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.07231/) (2020)
- [Objects that Sound](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.06651/) (2017)
- [Cooperative Learning of Audio and Video Models from Self-Supervised Synchronization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.00230/) (2018)
- [Video Summarization with Long Short-term Memory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.08110/) (2016)
- [Deep Reinforcement Learning for Unsupervised Video Summarization with Diversity-Representativeness Reward](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.00054/) (2017)
- [CLIP-It! Language-Guided Video Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.00650/) (2021)
- [Video Summarization Using Fully Convolutional Sequence Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.10538/) (2018)
- [Summarizing Videos with Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.01969/) (2018)
- [Rethinking the Evaluation of Video Summaries](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.11328/) (2019)
- [Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network for Video Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.12251/) (2019)
- [Video Jigsaw: Unsupervised Learning of Spatiotemporal Context for Video Action Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.07507/) (2018)
- [Transitive Invariance for Self-supervised Visual Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.02901/) (2017)
- [Discriminative Feature Learning for Unsupervised Video Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.09791/) (2018)
- [Reconstructive Sequence-Graph Network for Video Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.04066/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 21 of 21)

- [V2Xum-LLM: Cross-Modal Video Summarization with Temporal Prompt Instruction Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.12353/) (2024)
- [Visual-Text Cross Alignment: Refining the Similarity Score in Vision-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.02915/) (2024)
- [CSTA: CNN-based Spatiotemporal Attention for Video Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.11905/) (2024)
- [Video Summarization with Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.11199/) (2025)
- [MMSum: A Dataset for Multimodal Summarization and Thumbnail Generation of Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.04216/) (2023)
- [MMSummary: Multimodal Summary Generation for Fetal Ultrasound Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.03761/) (2024)
- [DeCafNet: Delegate and Conquer for Efficient Temporal Grounding in Long Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.16376/) (2025)
- [Uncovering the Hidden Dynamics of Video Self-supervised Learning under Distribution Shifts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.02014/) (2023)
- [SummDiff: Generative Modeling of Video Summarization with Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.08458/) (2025)
- [SHINE: Saliency-aware HIerarchical NEgative Ranking for Compositional Temporal Grounding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.05118/) (2024)
- [DailyMAE: Towards Pretraining Masked Autoencoders in One Day](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.00509/) (2024)
- [MS-Temba: Multi-Scale Temporal Mamba for Understanding Long Untrimmed Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.06138/) (2025)
- [TRIM: A Self-Supervised Video Summarization Framework Maximizing Temporal Relative Information and Representativeness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.20588/) (2025)
- [AHA -- Predicting What Matters Next: Online Highlight Detection Without Looking Ahead](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.16421/) (2025)
- [TripleSumm: Adaptive Triple-Modality Fusion for Video Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.01169/) (2026)
- [ViFiCon: Vision and Wireless Association Via Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.05513/) (2022)
- [TRIMMER: A New Paradigm for Video Summarization through Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.01659/) (2026)
- [MEDit-Bench: A Dataset for Evaluating Message-Driven Narrative Video Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.25300/) (2026)
- [Does SpatioTemporal information benefit Two video summarization benchmarks?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.03323/) (2024)
- [Language-guided Recursive Spatiotemporal Graph Modeling for Video Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.05604/) (2025)
- [Uncertainty-Aware and Decoder-Aligned Learning for Video Summarization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.09507/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Modern video summarization methods are based on deep neural networks that require a large amount of annotated data for training. However, existing datasets for video summarization are small-scale, easily leading to over-fitting of the deep models. Considering that the annotation of large-scale datasets is time-consuming, we propose a multimodal self-supervised learning framework to obtain semantic representations of videos, which benefits the video summarization task. Specifically, the self-supervised learning is conducted by exploring the semantic consistency between the videos and text in both coarse-grained and fine-grained fashions, as well as recovering masked frames in the videos. The multimodal framework is trained on a newly-collected dataset that consists of video-text pairs. Additionally, we introduce a progressive video summarization method, where the important content in a video is pinpointed progressively to generate better summaries. Extensive experiments have proved the effectiveness and superiority of our method in rank correlation coefficients and F-score.